A Dingo Ate My Math Book by Burkard Polster
A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages. This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics-whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.
Burkard Polster, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Marty Ross, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Marty Ross, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781470435219 |
| ISBN 10 | 1470435217 |
| Title | A Dingo Ate My Math Book |
| Author | Burkard Polster |
| Series | Monograph Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | American Mathematical Society |
| Year published | 2018-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |